Who r u

WHO ARE YOU?

"You are beyond the body-mind and personality, beyond all the experience and the experiencer thereof, beyond the world and its perceiver, beyond existence and its absence, beyond all assertions and denials. Be still and awaken to the realization of who you are. In this realization of no separate self, the supreme Reality which you are shines unobscured in all things, as all things, and beyond all things.

Having returned to the formless source and transcended all separateness, do not stop or cling even to this source, but go beyond to the supreme realization which transcends all dualities, yet does not deny even a speck of dust. The enlightened sage abides, as the eternal witness, wholly unconcerned, yet intimately engaged, resting beyond all definitions, neither clinging to transcendent freedom, nor entangled by the dualistic world therefore, one with all life.

Living in the perfect trust of supreme realization, the enlightened sage has nothing to gain or lose and naturally manifests love, wisdom, and compassion without any personal sense of being the doer of deeds. Having abandoned all concepts and ideas, the enlightened sage lives as ever-present consciousness, manifested and manifesting in the world of time and space that which is eternal, ever new, and whole. In this unobscured realization, supreme Reality shines consciously in all things, as all things, and beyond all things. Shining unobscured, it penetrates the entire universe. Penetrating the entire universe, it knows itself as Self."

~ Adyashanti

The Impact of Awakening

Quotes

Be as u r

Q: Yes, I still understand only theoretically. Yet the answers are simple, beautiful and convincing.

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Even the thought `I do not realize' is a hindrance.
In fact, the Self alone is.
Our real nature is mukti.
But we are imagining we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free,
while we are all the while free.
This will be understood only when we reach that stage.

We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something which we have always been and are.

An illustration will make this clear.
A man goes to sleep in this hall.
He dreams he has gone on a world tour,
is roaming over hill and dale, forest and country,
desert and sea, across various continents and
after many years of weary and strenuous travel,
returns to this country, reaches Tiruvannamalai,
enters the ashram and walks into the hall.
Just at that moment he wakes up and
finds he has not moved an inch
but was sleeping where he lay down.

He has not returned after great effort to this hall,
but is and always has been in the hall.

It is exactly like that;
If it is asked, `Why being free do we imagine that we are bound?'

I answer,
`Why being in the hall did you imagine you were on a world adventure, crossing hill and dale, desert and sea?

It is all mind or maya [illusion].

~ Be as you are

Emptiness

“When one destroys even the most subtle concepts and notions of subject and object, one arrives at the way things truly. But this state of emptiness is not empty like an empty pot or void space.

It is filled with the clarity of awareness. By attaining sound realization of this concentration of clear wisdom, one is able to destroy an entire mountain of negative actions and obscurations.”

~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Zurchungpa's Testament Commentaries)

Brahman

The word "Karna" means the one who listens. Listen to
spiritual teachings, but do not keep them confined only to the ear.
Act accordingly. Only one who acts will benefit. One who puts into
practice the teachings of the Sadguru, will attain Brahman. One must listen to and understand the science of life, and then you will be happy. You will get experience according to your faith.
If you meditate on God as the Life-Force, as the Life-Energy, then you will be the Life-Energy. We are not worldly. Discard the concept that you are an individual. If you actually live as a sage, you will attain the state of Brahman. If you live as the Self, you will be one with the Almighty God, Narayana.
Sadguru Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

God

God dwells in you, as you,
and you don't have to 'do' anything
to be God-realized or Self-realized,
it is already your true and natural state.

Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward,
and sacrifice your mind to the One Self radiating
in the Heart of your very being.

For this to be your own presently lived experience,
Self-Inquiry is the one direct and immediate way."

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Spiritual awakening

Spiritual awakening is a remembering. It is not becoming something that we are not. It is not about transforming ourselves. It is not about changing ourselves. It is a remembering of what we are, as if we’d known it long ago and had simply forgotten. At the moment of this remembering, if the remembering is authentic, it’s not viewed as a personal thing. There is really no such thing as a “personal” awakening, because “personal” would imply separation. “Personal” would imply that it is the “me” or the ego that awakens or becomes enlightened.
But in a true awakening, it is realized very clearly that even the awakening itself is not personal. It is universal Spirit or universal consciousness that wakes up to itself. Rather than the “me” waking up, what we are wakes up from the “me.” What we are wakes up from the seeker. What we are wakes up from the seeking.

~ Adyashanti

...from "The End of Your World"